Rabbi Michael Broyde Responds
A Very Short Reply to the Many Substantive Comments on my Article: An Initial Analysis of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch’s Teshuva on the Beth Din of America’s Prenuptial Agreement by Rabbi Michael J....
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Some formerly religious Jews at Mosihe House (The Jewish Week)One of the things I talk about often here is the fact that there are so many Jews that go ‘Off the Derech’ OTD. This is when a religious...
View ArticleAs the Orthodox Jewish Demographic Grows
Walking to shul in Monsey"How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, Your dwelling places, O Israel!" This wonderful blessing about the Jewish people expressed in the Torah (Bamidbar 24:5) by Balaam is not...
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Shas Party head and Interior Minister, Arye Deri (JTA)One has to consider the source. Which in this case is Shas Party head, Aryeh Deri who now serves as Israel’s Interior Minister. He is a convicted...
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Image from Arutz ShevaAny residual respect I may have had for the Women of the Wall is now history. Even though I was in profound disagreement with them, and believed that much of their motivation was...
View ArticleComing Full Circle? Not Entirely
Charedim in college - an increasing phenomenonCharedi society is the most dynamic society in Israel. So says Eitan Regev, an economist and senior researcher at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies...
View ArticleGrass Roots Changes in Tradition
Students - early in Beis Yaakov's history (Lehrhaus)Let me begin with full disclosure. I’ve known Dr. Leslie Ginsparg Klein for a long time. She is brilliant young woman who is unafraid to tell the...
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The Chasidic Jews of Williamsburg. (Pew Forum)Orthodoxy is the future of Judaism. That is the only realistic conclusion that can be drawn from yet another analysis of the 2013 Pew Report , ‘A Portrait...
View ArticleRabbi Asher Lopatin
R' Asher Lopatin - seen here with R' Y. H. Eichenstein from his days in ChicagoIf anyone wants to know how to be a Mentch, one need not look further than Rabbi Asher Lopatin. For those that are...
View ArticleOf Shells and Modesty
The late R'n Esther Jungreis - always fashionable yet modestI am a little uncomfortable talking about women’s fashions in the context of modesty. But that has never stopped me before. After reading a...
View ArticleHarvey and a Charedi Hero
Miriam and Adam BallinThe Jewish community of Houston has not been spared from Harvey’s wrath. According to the Jewish Week, 71% of Houston’s Jewish community has had serious water damage. Although the...
View ArticleThe Catholic Church and the Jewish People
Rabbi Arie Folger meets with Pope FrancisFather Coughlin is dead. And so is the former antisemitic approach he had to the Jewish people sourced on the former theology of his Church. Father James...
View ArticleThe Truth Is…
Trump rally (Cross Currrents)One of the reasons I am such a big fan of Rabbi Avi Shafran, is that, like me he is a seeker of Emes - Truth. Although we do not always arrive at the same conclusions about...
View ArticleRelying on Miracles to Sustain the Unsustainbable
Typical look of a KollelThe handwriting was on the wall. Now it is a sad reality as demonstrated in Rafi Goldmeier’s blog, Life in Israel. The idea of creating a society where men do not work – and...
View ArticleA Profile in Courage
Rabbi Menachem Bombach (Forward)Sometimes I wonder whether there is any sanity or intelligence at all in the more extreme ends of Orthodoxy. The uncivilized – almost primitive behavior of those...
View ArticleA Just Cause is No Excuse
Rabbi Shlomo Amar at the Kotel (Jerusalem Post)Reform Jews are my brothers. They are every bit as Jewish as I am. I love them all as I do the rest of Klal Yisroel. What I reject is their version of...
View ArticleDaas Torah? Or Daas Askanim?
Rabbi Peach Eliyahu Falk (Wikipeda)There is a lot of controversy about a concept called Daas Torah. A lot of it is based on misconceptions of what it really is. Because it is such an important feature...
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Orthodox Jewish families in Borough Park, Brooklyn (New York Times)One must accept the truth no matter who says it. And yet the truth is often ignored or even lied about by community leaders with an...
View ArticleDaas Torah - When Great Men are Worshipped
R' Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik, R' Aharon Kotler & Irving BunimI want to be clear from the outset so that there is no mistake about my views. I have profound respect for Gedolim. Who those Gedolim are...
View ArticleAn Ounce of Prevention
1 in 6 women in the IDF have been sexually harassed (Jerusalem Post)One in six female soldiers in Israel are sexually harassed. So reports the Jerusalem Post. This is an outrageous situation that...
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